What is SLCM?

South Lake Community Ministries seeks to connect a neighbor in need with a neighbor who has something to give. We currently run three community programs including Buses N’ Backpacks, Brown Bags and South Lake Aviation.

Buses n’ Backpacks was started in 2005 as a ministry of The Church at South Lake. The vision for the program started with a simple question: What would it look like for our church to take Jesus at his word and really love our neighbor as ourselves? Since then, the organization has grown from serving 15 children with a weekend backpack of food, to a partnership with 17 local schools, to serving seniors by delivering food, to mentoring at-risk teens. South Lake Community Ministries is a 501c3 organization with an independent Board of Directors.

We provide adult and peer mentoring to at-risk teens while also providing them with the necessary training needed to obtain a pilot’s license.

Testimonials

We picked up Christmas assistance for a Great Grandmother who is raising her three Great Grandchildren. We were brought to tears by the love and generosity that was expressed…it was indeed a very Merry Christmas for this family.

Founders of LovExtension

Careful planning is evident in the well balanced variety of foods specifically tailored to the size of each family and the ages of the children.

Jane Boyack | School Social Worker

Your support is greatly appreciated and enables us to better serve the youth of our community…

Boys & Girls Club of Lake & Sumter Counties

You help the students prosper by giving them food. You fuel their minds along with them not having to worry about the supplies they need.

M. Andrews | South Lake High

There is no doubt that receiving help from Buses n’ Backpacks not only gave my student and her family daily sustenance, but strengthened her mom’s faith and helped sustain her spiritually in a time of great crisis.

Bonnie Taylor | Lake County Teacher

You’d think it was Christmas. My grandson loves the potatoes and the veggies in a can!

Students Grandmother

It was absolutely apparent that these folks were doing everything they could to get by.